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This is shocking neglect and/or blind-siding that needs to be urgently amended with massively increased budgets, and some robust action to cauterise the flow immediately and send these wide open front-door gate crashers to Manus and Nauru for proper processing the moment they apply for asylum or are identified in a random ID check.

We do not need to allow the problem of illegal entry to get so large, as it has in the US, where it has gone on for so long and on such a scale it is almost impossible to manage.

The consequence of fudging this is the prospective collapse of the multicultural ideal, chronic disruption of the democratic consensus, and the rise of an identitarian constituency that supports Trump look-alikes, and worse.

If multiculturalism is to survive the next 20-30 years we have to ensure that we govern our borders without the dubious help of a social libertarian ascendancy that seems to have lost its compass and its capacity to make sense of what is going on around it .. rather like the libertarian market ascendancy has done with the environment .. and just as much in denial about it.

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